BS-177POPoetry
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
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Open the reading dossier - Call number
- PO · BS-177
- Language
- Spanish / English
- Physical copies
- 1
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Published
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9781710627640
- Verification
- Verified
What it is about
Pablo Neruda’s early sequence moves through desire, distance, body, landscape, memory, and loss in lush, musical images. The famous poems are emotionally immediate, but their gendered metaphors and possessive gaze also reward critical attention rather than uncomplicated romance. I need this book close whenever I start thinking the question has become simple.
Why I keep it
Twenty love poems and one despair. The proportion is right.
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